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Show f IMPROVED 1 ROADS I WAR MATERIAL DISTRIBUTED Steady Surplus Supply Being Sent to Various States by Bureau of Public Roads. (Prepared by ths Unitei States Depaxtmvnt of Agriculture.) A steady supply of surplus war material ma-terial suitable for highway construction construc-tion is being distributed to the states by the bureau of public roads, United -States Department of Agriculture, which acts as a clearing house. A force of about 275 persons is kept In the field taking Inventories and preparing pre-paring material for shipment. Lists of material available are sent to each state highway department, and a period of 30 days allowed for the submission of requisitions. The material mate-rial is ullotted to the state on the same basis as monetary federal aid for road construction, a value being placed on each item and a record kept of the total value received by each state. Up to February 1 of this year the value of the material thus distributed dis-tributed amounted to $120,000,000, of which $90,000,000 represented the value of motor vehicles and parts. Recently an Inventory was taken of about $40,000,000 worth of material at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., part of which will be retained by the War department de-partment and the remainder, suitable for road work, soon will be available for distribution. The work Is being rushed, so that the material may be used for road work early In the season sea-son and the camp cleaned up by August Au-gust 1. Other surplus war materials recently recent-ly received for distribution and located lo-cated at Schenectady, N. T. ; Water-town, Water-town, Mass., and Dover, N. J., Include 200 carloads of brick, about half of L , - 2 A hcderal-Aid Concrete Road in Minnesota. Min-nesota. which Is suitable for highwny paving; 5,000,000 pounds of nails, 1,000,000 pounds of staples, 1,000,000 square feet of concrete reinforcing mesh, 200.000 monkey wrenches and 133 carloads car-loads of picks and pick handles. |